Exercise On Long-Term Memory Summary

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This article examines the effects of acute exercise on long-term memory. They assessed for memory by using a paragraph recall, in which participants listened to two paragraphs and then had to recall them 35 minutes later. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups: exercise prior to exposure, exercise after exposure, or no-exercise. The participants included 48 young adults recruited from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro campus. There were 15 men and 33 women with a mean age of 22.02 years. They were also relatively ethically diverse. The exercise consisted of 30 minutes on a cycle ergometer, which included 20 minutes at moderate intensity. To assess long-term memory, the researchers used the standard New York University Paragraphs for immediate and delayed recall, which is a subtest of the Guild Memory Test. The article …show more content…
It was very focused on the outcomes and did a very good job limiting limitations of the research. Some limitations I did come across though, were the ratio between men and women. The article states that they know from other studies that women tend to have a better recall rates and the participants had more women. To account for this, they had equally 5 men and 11 women in each to try to control for this. Another limitation was they did not assess heart rate during the aerobic exercise and they did not initially do a fitness test before the study started. This could be a limitation because they do not know if the participates were exercising to there greatest capacity. Future research is needs to have better methods of regulating exercise intensity to be able to see specific conclusions regarding the relationship between exercise intensity and cognitive outcomes. Overall, I do think this data is objective and I will be able to use it for my own research, but does have some